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Concept of the program

<aside> 💫 Goal: students will develop sense of their agency in the society through creating digital media projects and increasing their skills of critical thinking, collaboration, and communication.

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For the purposes of our program, we will define agency as “the capacity to make choices and the power to act on those choices, especially to claim and voice rights” (A. Vidyarthi et al., 2021). In this sense agency is interconnected with adolescents’ self-efficacy, self-esteem, feeling of being significant, bodily autonomy, and experiences of connectedness (A. Vidyarthi et al., 2021; S. Alper, 2020). Based on this approach and content of the program we intend to work with participants’ agency through developing skills of social emotional learning, collaboration and communication and actual realization of projects.

Key learning objectives

• Students will have an experience of executing project including planning, idea generating, task managing, content creating and evaluating results.
• Students will learn how to find and present arguments (to defined problems and solutions), work in teams and resolve possible conflicts, actively listen and assert their positions, take social action using digital platforms.

Key attitudes developing in the program

• participants recognize their agency as their ability take actions on problems and topics meaningful to them
• participants recognize the value of teamwork and collaboration with the representatives of different social and cultural groups
• participants understand what impact on the society and environment they are able to make
• participants understand the value of non-violent communication
• participants learn to see the world through another's eyes, to acknowledge other people’s opinion

Assessment tools:

→ self-assessment rubrics for measuring individual progress in skills

→ self-report survey for observing changes in attitudes

→ rubric for evaluating team projects (administered three times during events at the end of each module)

• Modules’ description in Russian